Wednesday, January 25
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Incredibly beautiful weather.
In a way, for not talking with Train Wreck this week. Part of me wants to call her, and then part of me thinks that the peace is nice.
I painted last night, and I am enjoying the results. Kind of dramatic and Asian-inspired. I used dark watercolor to look almost like ink.
Can anyone tell me how to more easily download images to here? What I have been doing is clumsy and takes too long (I put an image onto facebook, then open it in a tab so it has an address).
I went to see River, and we had a lesson today. It went well. We worked on some very subtle cues for yielding the hindquarters again, and in motion as I draw him towards me. Then we worked on the gate as well.
I tread very carefully about Earl's health. I did not offer to take him, I have decided that it is probably out of line to do so. Earl has been pretty rough looking the last couple of days, but talking with R today, she is a little mystified because when they did take him in before, they did blood work, and that came back as normal, so they don't know what else to do besides antibiotics. I get that, the next thing might be ultrasound, which is really expensive, and most of the time would only diagnose something that you can't fix anyhow. Also, anything ultrasound would show should still have presented as abnormal blood work.
Yet, today Earl has a swelling on one side of his face, a new development. This might be the problem, possibly an abscess. The vet had looked at his teeth, but they did not do an x-ray.
Well, that's about all I can really do about it, is to be updated. At least they did blood work.
I came home and had a nap.
I learned about the etymology of the word "panic": The word "panic" derives from antiquity and is a tribute to the ancient god Pan. One of the many gods in the mythology of ancient Greece, Pan was the god of shepherds and of woods and pastures. The Greeks believed that he often wandered peacefully through the woods, playing a pipe, but when accidentally awakened from his noontime nap he could give a great shout that would cause flocks to stampede. From this aspect of Pan's nature Greek authors derived the word panikos, “sudden fear,” the ultimate source of the English word: "panic".[1] The Greek term indicates the feeling of total fear that is also sudden and often attributed to the presence of a god.[2]
From Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic
The page is quite interesting. It talks about how panic is contagious, and in my own life I know that working with horses means you have to work very hard to have level emotions, because horses are especially in tune to anything that might be a threat, or your own fear (in a herd, if one animal sees something scary, the others will be worried and possibly flee and they never even look to see what it might be,).
There is also a whole field of architecture that deals with buildings that reduce anxiety, and design that prevents people from crushing each other in the event of a mass hysteria, and things like clear orientations and clear exits and wide enough hallways and so on. Not so different from the concept of moving cattle in complex alleys and chutes for..ahem..processing.
This site is fascinating. It is about designing escape routes and lowering panic in emergencies. It brought up some very interesting observations, like how people who are healthy and normal behave as though they are cognitively impaired when in flight or fight mode (again, important and true when working with horses), so the building's escape route must be clear, not have duality or ambiguity (like mistaking a window as an escape route), and must take advantage of the intuitive seeking of light as a means of finding egress. There is discussion of how to use columns in front of exits to slow and divide flow to prevent packed crowds in front of an exit.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226098717_NO_PANIC_Escape_and_Panic_in_Buildings-Architectural_Basic_Research_in_the_Context_of_Security_and_Safety_Research
Incredibly beautiful weather.
In a way, for not talking with Train Wreck this week. Part of me wants to call her, and then part of me thinks that the peace is nice.
I painted last night, and I am enjoying the results. Kind of dramatic and Asian-inspired. I used dark watercolor to look almost like ink.
Can anyone tell me how to more easily download images to here? What I have been doing is clumsy and takes too long (I put an image onto facebook, then open it in a tab so it has an address).
I went to see River, and we had a lesson today. It went well. We worked on some very subtle cues for yielding the hindquarters again, and in motion as I draw him towards me. Then we worked on the gate as well.
I tread very carefully about Earl's health. I did not offer to take him, I have decided that it is probably out of line to do so. Earl has been pretty rough looking the last couple of days, but talking with R today, she is a little mystified because when they did take him in before, they did blood work, and that came back as normal, so they don't know what else to do besides antibiotics. I get that, the next thing might be ultrasound, which is really expensive, and most of the time would only diagnose something that you can't fix anyhow. Also, anything ultrasound would show should still have presented as abnormal blood work.
Yet, today Earl has a swelling on one side of his face, a new development. This might be the problem, possibly an abscess. The vet had looked at his teeth, but they did not do an x-ray.
Well, that's about all I can really do about it, is to be updated. At least they did blood work.
I came home and had a nap.
I learned about the etymology of the word "panic": The word "panic" derives from antiquity and is a tribute to the ancient god Pan. One of the many gods in the mythology of ancient Greece, Pan was the god of shepherds and of woods and pastures. The Greeks believed that he often wandered peacefully through the woods, playing a pipe, but when accidentally awakened from his noontime nap he could give a great shout that would cause flocks to stampede. From this aspect of Pan's nature Greek authors derived the word panikos, “sudden fear,” the ultimate source of the English word: "panic".[1] The Greek term indicates the feeling of total fear that is also sudden and often attributed to the presence of a god.[2]
From Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic
The page is quite interesting. It talks about how panic is contagious, and in my own life I know that working with horses means you have to work very hard to have level emotions, because horses are especially in tune to anything that might be a threat, or your own fear (in a herd, if one animal sees something scary, the others will be worried and possibly flee and they never even look to see what it might be,).
There is also a whole field of architecture that deals with buildings that reduce anxiety, and design that prevents people from crushing each other in the event of a mass hysteria, and things like clear orientations and clear exits and wide enough hallways and so on. Not so different from the concept of moving cattle in complex alleys and chutes for..ahem..processing.
This site is fascinating. It is about designing escape routes and lowering panic in emergencies. It brought up some very interesting observations, like how people who are healthy and normal behave as though they are cognitively impaired when in flight or fight mode (again, important and true when working with horses), so the building's escape route must be clear, not have duality or ambiguity (like mistaking a window as an escape route), and must take advantage of the intuitive seeking of light as a means of finding egress. There is discussion of how to use columns in front of exits to slow and divide flow to prevent packed crowds in front of an exit.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226098717_NO_PANIC_Escape_and_Panic_in_Buildings-Architectural_Basic_Research_in_the_Context_of_Security_and_Safety_Research
